A DANGEROUS PRACTICE.
Burning Off Paint Makes Insurance
i Void.
It seems that considerable danger to
property exists in the practice of
burning off old paint before re-paint
ing. The question has long been a
subject of debate in the technical
journals, and now householders and
the newspapers have begun to discuss
it. Those of us who, with trembling,
have watched the painters blow a
fiery blast from their lamps against
our houses, and have looked sadlv at
the size of our painting bill because
of the time wasted on this prelimin
ary work, are interested in the in
vestigation by the Greenfield < Mass.)
Gazette and Courier, which gives con
siderable space to the reasons for the
practice, questions its necessity and
suggests ways to prevent the risk of
burning down one's house in order to
get the old paint off. It says:
There is a good deal of discussion
among householders as to the desir
ability, in painting houses, of burning
off the old paint, a practice that has
grown very common of late in Green
field and elsewhere. Insurance men
are strongly opposed to this method,
it makes void insurance policies for
fires caused in this manner. Several
houses in Greenfield have gotten afire
as the result of this method, and in
some places houses have burned as a
result.
It is undoubtedly true that when
a house has been painted over and
°'er again there conies to be an ac
cumulation of paint in bunches. If
new paint is put on top of these ac
cumulations it is almost sure to blis
ter. To burn it off is the quickest
and cheapest and perhaps the surest
method of getting rid of this, old
paint.”
The Gazette and Courier quotes cer
tain old patrons to the effect that ac
cumulations of paint are unnecessary.
These old-timers lay the blame partly
on the painter who fails to brush his
paint in well, partly on the custom of
painting in damp weather or not allow
ing sufficient time for drying between
coats, and partly to the use of adulter
ated paints instead of old-fashioned
linseed oii and pure white lead. The
paper says:
Many of the old householders say
that if care is taken at all these points
it is absolutely unnecessary to have
paint burned off. They advise that
people who have houses painted should
buy their own materials, and to have
them put on by the day, so as to be
sure to get good lead and oil. Of
course the burning off of paint greatly
increases the cost of the job.”
The trouble householders everywhere
have with paint is pretty well summed
up by our contemporary, and the
causes are about the same everywhere.
By far the most frequent cause of the
necessity for the dangerous practice
of burning old paint is the use of poor
material. The oil should be pure lin
seed and the white lead should be real
white lead. The latter is more often
tampered with than the oil. Earthy
subsiances, and pulverized rock and
quartz, are frequently used as eheap
eners, to the great detriment of the
paint.
Painters rarely adulterate white
lead themselves and they very seldom
use ready prepared paints—the most
frequent causes of paint trouble. But
they do often buy adulterated white
lead because the property owner in
sists on a low price and the painter
has to economize somewhere. The
suggestion is therefore a good one
that the property owner investigate
the subject a little, find out the name
of some reliable brand of white lead,
and see that the keg is marked with
that brand.
The iinseed oil is more difficult to
be sure of. as jt is usually sold in
bulk when the quantity is small; but
reliable makers of linseed oil can be
learned on inquiry, and, if your dealer
is reliable, you will get what you want.
Pure white lead and linseed oil are
so necessary to good paint that the
little trouble necessary to get them
well repays the house owner in dollars
and cents saved.
The Difference.
The actress looked debonair, al
though the play had been pronounced
a failure on every side.
"It's got to succeed." she explained
"and for that reason I'm not nervous.
Last season 1 played seven new part$
on Broadway, but I feel perfectly
tranquil now. That's the advantage
of being a musical show. More than
$40,000 is invested in costumes and
scenery and they're not going to be
thrown away. The piece has simply
got to be made a success. If it had
been a dramatic production we would
have closed on Saturday night. As it
is. 1 expect to keep the same job all
winter.”
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desired stiffness, it is usually neces
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Serve as Illuminants.
The fire-flies of Jamaica emit so
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Indeed, it is an expedient to which
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Defiance Starch—Never sticks to the
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•A homely rich girl is prettier than
a beautiful poor one—in the eyes of
some men.
Lewis' Single Binder straight 5c cigar is
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a woman's tears, the result is inevi
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A Doctor of Souls
By Alice Louise Lee.
Rev. John Cole walked slowly down
the aisle trying to look as he did not
feel—cheerful. On the platform stood ;
a tail white-haired man talking to a
small woman, who wept and beat her
hands together. John glanced back at
them and gave a sigh of relief that
be had escaped Addie White for one
evening at least.
A thin, colorless man emerged from
the darkness of the vestibule.
"Don't wait for the evangelist,Broth
er Cole.” Abner White's voice was as
expressionless as his face. ‘‘Addie has
invited him home with us. I hope,”
Abner’s tone was wistful, "that he can
point the way to Addie.”
John laid a hand on Abner’s arm.
“Ail things work together for good,
you remember, Brother White,” he
quoted, perfunctorily, “all things!” j
That Sunday evening service, con- j
ducted by the new evangelist, was the
beginning of the longest and weariest
W’eek or John's briet ministry.
“I long to get down to business!”
he cried to his wife Friday evening
after services. He was pacing the study
floor. "I feel helpless and baffled.
Here are these large audiences gather
ing night after night, with no results.” !
John stopped before Birdie almost j
tragically. “Why, even Addie White
has ceased to come to the altar! And
have you noticed Reasoner Jameson?
He is there every night. You know
how i have worked and prayed for
“Well, Then, You Are All of the Offi
cial Board.”
that man. He might be such a power
in the church with his intelligence and
his money, and yet there it, nothing
done but this eternal singing!” John
ended almost fiercely.
He threw himself into the great
study chair. Birdie came softly and
sat on his knees. She laid a small
hand on his head and pushed it back. |
“I’ll tell you a secret,” she began,
planting a finger firmly on John's chin.
"It's a two and two that you have
never put together. Dr. Whipple does
not conduct, revivals as you do, and as
your father did—that's one two; there
fore, you don’t approve of him—that’s
the other two.” John smiled and cap
tured the finger on his chin.
"The revivalist we had here last win- j
ter frightened me so I wouldn’t go
down-cellar alone in the evening for
weeks. Now, John,” putting her hand
over his mouth, “I know he did good.
There was old Uncle Josh. He need
ed to te dangled six weeks over brim
stone and fire to be smoked out of his
obstinacy. But, there may be people
who can’t be reached that way. It is
possible that Dr. Whipple was sent
to us to retch another class.”
"That is very, very possible, my
dear,” said John, quietly, "but do you
know of any one whom he has
reached?”
Birdie looked positively embar
rassed. "No, I do not, but I do know
he has brought an air of chtterfulness
and helpfulness into the church—”
"But no new converts,” interrupted
John.
Birdie returned to her childish man- ■
ner. "Then your old hoard may turn
him cff in its meeting to-morrow j
night!” she said, with an air of af-1
fected spitefulness. ’’There is the door- !
bell. I’ll send some one else up to tor-!
ment you,” and she flew down the
stairs.
Abner White stood at the door. “Is
Brother Cole to home. Mis’ Cole? 1
wanted to stop in and see him awhile
before board meetin’."
"Go right up to his study. Brother
\Vhi:e. You’ll find him there,’’ said
Birdie, cordially.
Sitting in the big arm-chair, Abner
White began.
"Brother Cole,” he said. "I ain't a
goin’ agin’ Dr. Whipple. So I’ve jest
come to tell ye I won’t be at board
meetin’ to-morrow night. I won't vote
for discontinuin’ his services, like 1
think some of the brethren wants to
do, and yet I’ve no call to put a straw
in the way of anyone who don't be
lieve in his ways.”
“And so," said John, wearily, “you
are gomg to shift th# responsibility.”
Abner rubbed the arms of the chair
in perplexity. “You see it’s about Ad
I die. You know Addle committed the
unpardonable sin durin’ revival last
I winter. Din t know what possessed
her to do it,” thoughtfully, "ier Addie
never missed an evenin’ service nor a
noon prayer-meetin' once durin' them
ten weeks, kept everything at home
goin’, too. But she did it Now I
don't pretend to understand the sin
business, but I did understand mighty
well how it changed Addie.
"Wall, she told Dr. Whipple about it
the first night. You’d expect he’d spend
a spell in prayer with her, but he
didn’t. He said they was both too
tired, and he didn't want to hear about
any unpardonable sin till mornin’. I
was mark at him that night, with Ad
dle lee!in’ so bad. Shows,’ interpo
lated Abner, "what a fool I t*. W’hen
mornin’ come, did he pray with her?
Wall, no. what do ye think that eu’rus
man done?” ^ .
John shook his head.
"Wall, the sun shone mat mornin’
and he went around and threw open
every Diind downstairs. You know they
ain't been open in nigh a year. TheD
he unlocked the organ and opened it
up, and set down and sung. Now, do
ye thiDk he sung hymns? No, siree!
Now this is the queer part. He sung
a lot of the funniest things I ever
heard, about skatin’ out west on a
telegraph wire—college songs he called
’em. They was a fool mess, but in
spite of all I could do I laughed and
laughed. And, by and by, what do you
think? Addie, she began to laugh.
Why, Brother Cole, she ain’t laughed
since last winter's revival! But she
got to shakin' and shakin'. Gosh! it
was pleasant to set there with the
sun streamin' in and see her shake.
"Wall, to make a long story short.
Brother Cole, that feller hain’t never
prayed with Addie and now she don’t
seem to need prayin'. I can’t make
head nor tail of it yet, Brother Cole;
but I know Addie’s the old Addie, and
I won't go back on the man what's
made her so easy in her mind. I
won't be bo board meetin’ to-morrow
night.”
Saturday morning there stood before
the parsonage door the last man that
John ever expected to see there—
Keasoner Jameson.
"Mr. Cole,” he began in his abrupt
wav, “1 have made a discovery, or
rather Dr. Whipple hits made one for
me. As a result, I’m here to tell you
that I want you to call on me with
every subscription paper for Christian
work you have in circulation.”
Reasoner produced a long slip of pa
per, which he held toward John.
"I reckon my discovery is worth that
much to the cause to-day. It will be
worth more in the future.”
John arose and reached for the pa
per. It was a check for $500. He
held It.in his hand and stared at Rea
soner. "Your discovery?” he gasped.
“That I am and have been a Chris
tian tor years, and didn't know it.”
"A Christian, and didn't know it?”
gasped John again.
Reasoner arose and faced John. His
speech had lost its abruptness. “Yes.
The Goa that I had known since boy
hood spoke to me in my fields, under
the trees, in the song of the birds, in
the sweetness of spring. I felt him
in the quiet, but it seemed to me im
possible that he could be the same
God whose wrath had appalled me at
the altar. I cannot see him as you
do, because I have not your eyes. I
cannot serve him as you do, because I
have r.ot your nature: but I know now
that 1 walk with God.”
Reasoner turned and limped toward
the door. John let him go in silence.
With his hands locked behind him
over that check, he paced the floor
and questioned himself concerning this
strange and wonderful fisher of men.
Was bis work enduring? Could a man
possibly be a Christian and not know
it? Did the secret of Dr. Whipple's
work lie in making people satisfied
with tnemselves? What course should
he, John, pursue in board meeting that
evening?
Thes? questions were all unanswered
at seven o'clock. John mechanically
arranged his study for the official mem
bers. He drew down the shades. Then
he waited.
At nine o’clock Mrs. Cole poked her
curly head in at the door. “I move
and second, Mr. President, that we re
tain the services of our beloved Fa
ther Whippie, and carry the motion!
John, where are the trustees?”
"Birdie, this is a most disgraceful
situation!” exclaimed John. “Never
before has this occurred. Each has.
remained away in order to throw the
responsibility on the others, and I
am left alone.”
Mrs. Cole entered. She sat down
lightly in the secretary's chair and
lookei at John's face.
“John, I have the best idea. A part
of you wants Dr. Whipple to go, a mi
nority part. Isn’t that true? And a
majority part of you wants him to
stay. Isn’t that true?”
“I thick so,” smiled John.
“Weil, then, you are all of the offi
cial board at a regularly called meet
ing. Therefore—”
She stopped laughing. John caught
her meaning and broke into’ a peal of
laughter as the parsonage had not
heard that week.
Sunday morning the church was
filled.
John read the usual list of notices,
then paused. He carefully piled the
hymnal on the, big pulpit Bible, and
put d copy of the discipline on top of
that, and, with painstaking but uncon
scious care, squared the edges as he
spoke "At a meeting of the official
board last evening it was decided by
a—large—majority vote to retain the
services of Dr. Whipple through this
month’s revival meeting. Sing, if you
please, hymn 809.”
(.Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
SS1.COO.COO for Coffee.
According to the department of
commerce and labor, during 1904
there were 1,053.000.000 pounds of
coffee consumed in the United States,
valued at $S1,000.000. This is equiva
lent to about 13 pounds for every
man, woman and child of the popula
tion.
The total production of the world
during the same year was 2.260.000,
000 pounds, so that the United States
consumed nearly half of the total
supply.
But 104.000,000 pounds of lea. worth
$17,000,000. were imported during the
same period. The imports of all trop
ical products during the year amount
ed to $465,000,000. while the total im
ports of all sort'' reached the enor
mous sum of $1,036,000,000.
Packers’ Men to Wear White.
Omaha. Neb.—Every workman in
the South Omaha packing plants will
hereafter wear tfhite duck suits. The
packers have purchased 7,000 and each
man will t>e supplied with clean
clothes daily. White dresses for 3,000
girls also have been ordered. The
companies will wash these clothes
each day free of charge.
WORST FORM OF ECZEMA.
Black Spotches All Over Face—Af
fected Parts Now Clear as Ever-*.
Cured by the Cuticura Rem
edies.
“About four years ago I was afflict
ed with black splotches all over my
face anil a few covering my body,
which produced a severe itching irri
tation, and which caused me a great
deal of annoyance and suffering, to
such an extent that I was forced to
call in two of the leading physicians
of my totvn. After a thorough exami
nation of the dreaded complaint they
announced it to be skin eczema in its
worst form. They treated me for the
same for the length of one year, but
the treatment did me no good. Fin
ally my husband purchased a set of
the Cuticura Remedies, and after
using the contents of the first bottle
of Cuticura Resolvent in connection
with the Cuticura Soap and Ointment,
the breaking out entirely stopped. I
continued the use of the Cuticura
Remedies for six months, and after j
that every splotch was entirely gone '
and the affected parts were left as
clear as ever. The Cuticura Reme- i
dies not only cured me of that dread- j
ful disease, eczema, but other compli
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Sledge. 540 Jones Ave., Selma, Ala., !
Oct. 28, 1905.”
GAME THAT BOBBIE KNEW.
Youngster's Revelations Were Inter- J
esting to Caller.
A young fellow had called upon a
girl with whose charms he was some
what smitten, and was waiting in the
parlor when her small brother come
in, weeping bitterly. From either a
sense of politic precaution or natural
kindness of heart, the young man had
been kind to the little fellow on sev
eral occasions, and now took him on
his lap and asked the cause of the
trouble.
“Sis-sister is mean to me." the little
fellow sobbed.
"Oh. I guess she didn't intend to be;
maybe you worried her when she was
busy,” the youth said consolingly.
"What was she doing?"
“She was playin', an' wouldn't let
me play, too." Lobby said.
"Playing what? The piano? I
guess she thought you didn't know
how."
Oh, yes, I know how better'n she
does,” Bobby asserted. "She was
playin' Indian, an’ wasn't putting half
’nough paint on her face."
Hunters Mauled by Lioness.
A fight between two hunters and an
infuriated lioness is rei>orted from
British East Africa.
Messrs. Lucas and Goldfinch left
Nairobi on a shooting expedition, and
when five miles from the town the
lioness was observed.
While the men stood at the edge of
the thicket the brute pounced on Mr.
Goldfinch and threw him to the
ground. It bit him on the thigh be
fore Mr. Lucas lodged a bullet in its
neck.
Maddened by the wound, the ani
mal turned its attention to Mr. Lucas,
whose horse it felled and then pinned
the rider to the ground, inflicting lac
erations on his face and biting his
right arm. He was saved by Mr.
Goldfinch, .who. sitting up, rolled the
lioness over with a well-aimed shot.
The beast was about to spring on
its victim again when another dis
charge from the same weapon proved
fatal. The wounded men were taken
back to town, where they received
medical aid.
Practiced What He Preached.
Rev. Denis P. O’Flynn, of New York
city, used to say that priests ought to
die poor and he practiced what he
preached. Aside from a valuable li
brary given to the Paulist fathers he
has left no discoverable estate—no
money in bank, no money in the rec
tory. ‘ He died as poor as the proverb
ial church mouse,” says his assistant,
Father Corrigan. “What little insur
ance he carried will barely cover the
funeral expenses. He never saved a
penny for himself. After keeping the
house on his meager salary he gave
away all he had.”
Unique Election Cry.
A wooden-logged candidate for the
town council of Claston, Eng., urged
his fellow artisans to elect him on the
ground that a wooden leg in the coun
cil would be a pleasant variety among
the wooden heads there now. “Vote
for Peggy!” was his inspiring slogan.
THE WAY OUT.
Change of Foad Brought Success and
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• From infancy,” she says, “I have
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High School, but soon had to aban
don my studies on account of nervous
prostration and hysteria.
“My food did not agree with me, I
grew thin and despondent. I could
not enjoy the simplest social affair for
1 suffered constantly from nervous
ness in spite of all sorts of medicines.
"This wretched condition continued
until I was twenty-five, when I be
came interested in the letters of those
who had cases like mine and tvho
were being cured by eating Grape
Nuts.
“I had little faith, but procured a
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to grow stronger.
“I had a new feeling of peace and
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—of course using Grape-Xuts every
May. It is now four years since I be
jgan to use Grape-Xuts, I am the mis
tress of a happy home and the old
jweakness has never returned.” Name
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Last year 5,500 native Christians
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During 1905 there were wrecked,
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It is stated that nearly 8,000 school
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are a chestnut brown and his abdomen
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middle of the back over the shoulder.
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mined to have a like one for herself
and the next morning flew away to
| get it: but the day proving somewhat
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MaKe Unhappy Homes—Their Condition Irritates
Both Husband and Children—How Thousands
of Mothers Have Been Saved From Nervous
Prostration and Made Strong and Well.
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A nervous, irritable mother, often on
the verge of hysterics, is unfit to care
for children ; it ruins a child's disposi
tion and reacts upon herself. The
trouble between children and their
mothers too often is due to the fact
that the mother has some female weak
ness, and she is entirely unfit to bear
the strain upon her nerves that govern
ing children involves; it is impossible
for her to do anything calmly.
The ills of women act like a firebrand
upon the nerves, consequently nine
tenths of the nervous prostration, ner
vous despondency, “ the blues,-’ sleep
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women arise from some derangement
of the female organism. ^
Do you experience fits of depression
with restlessness, alternating with
extreme irritability? Are your spirits
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like crying ?
Do you feel something like a ball ris
ing in your throat and threatening to
choke you; all the senses perverted,
morbidly sensitive to light and sound :
pain in the abdominal region, and
between the shoulders; bearing-down
pains; nervous dyspepsia and almost
| continually cross and snappy?
If so. your nerves are in a shattered
condition, and you are threatened with
nervous prostration.
Proof is monumental that nothing in
the world is better for nervous prostra
tion than Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound; thousands and thou
sands of women can testify to this fact.
Ask Mrs. Pinkham's Adyice—A Wool
Mrs. Chester Curry, Leader of the
Ladies’ Symphony Orchestra, 42 Sara
toga Street, East Boston, Mass.,
writes:
Lear Mrs. Pinkhatn:—
“ For eight years I was troubled with ex
treme nervousness and hysteria, brought on
by irregularities. 1 could neither enjoy life
nor sleep nights: I was very irritable, nervous
and despondent.
“ Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
was recommended and proved to be the only
remedy that helped me. 1 have daily im
proved in health until I am now strong and
well, and all nervousness has disappeared. ’
Mrs. Charles F. Brown, Vice-Presi
dent of the Mothers’ Club, 21 Cedar
Terrace, Hot Springs, Ark., writes:
Dear Mrs. Pirkham:—
“ I dragged through nine years of miser
able existence, worn out with pain and ner
vousness, until it seemed as though I should
fly. I then noticed a statement of a woman
troubled as I was, and the wonderful results
she derived from Lvdia E. Pinkham's Vege
table Compound, i decided to try it. I did so,
and at the end of three months I was a differ
ent woman. My nervousness was all gone, I
was no longer irritable, and my husband fell
in love with me all over again.”
Women should remember that Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is
the medicine that holds the record for
the greatest number of actual cures of
female ills, and take no substitute.
Free Advice to Women.
Mrs. Pinkhatn, daughter-in-law of
Lydia E. Pinkhatn. Lynn, Mass., invites
all sick women to write to her for
advice. Mrs. Pinkham's vast-experience
with female troubles enables her to ad
vise you wisely, and she will charge
you nothing for her advice.
j] Best Understands a Homan's Ills.
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W. L. DOUGLAS
*3.50&*3.00 Shoes
BC8T IN THE WORLD
W.LDouglas $4 Gilt Edge line
cannot be equalled at an j price y'
To Shoe Dealers:
W. L. Douglas* Job
bing House is the most
complete in this country
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SHOES FOB EVERYBODY AT ALL PRICES.
Men’s Shoes. $5 to $1160. Boys’ Shoes. $3
to$1.25. Women’s Shoe:?. $4.00 to $1.50.
Misses' & Children’s Shoes. $2.25 to $1.00.
Try W. L.. Douglas Women’s, Blisses and
Children's shoes: for style, fit and wear
they exeel other makes.
If I could take ycu Into my large
factories at Brockton, Mass.,and show
you how carefully W.L. Douglas shoes
are made, you would then understand
why they hold their shape, fit better,
wear longer, and are of greater value
than any other make.
Wherever you live you can obtain W. L.
Douglas shoe;. His name and price is stamped
on the bottom, which protects you against high
prices and interior shoes. Take no substi•
tate. Ask your dealer ior W. L. Douglas shoes
and insist upon having them,
fast Color Eyelets used; they tolll oat weer brassy.
Write ior Illustrated Catalog of Fall Stvles.
W. L. DOUGLAS, Dept. 12. Brockton,’Mass.
U. S. NAVY
enlists for four years young men of good
character and sound phr steal condiriou be
tween the ages of 17 and & as apprentice sea
men; opportunities for advancement; par
*16 to *70 a month. Electricians, machinists,
blacksmiths, coppersmiths, yeomen (clerks),
carpenters, shiptitters, hremen. musicians,
cooks, etc . between 21 and 35 years, enlisted
in special ratings with suitable nav; hospital
apprentices 18 to 28 years. Retirement on
three-fourths pay and allowances after 30
years service. Applicants must be American
citizens.
first clothing outfit free to recruits. Upon
discharge travel allowance 4 cents per mile to
place of enlistment. Bonus four months' pav
and i ncrease i n pay upon re-en iistment wi t hi n
four months of discharge. Offices at Lmco n
and Hastings. Nebraska. Also, during winter,
at Des Moines and Sioux City. Iowa. Address
■ATT IKCKUmUS STATION.P.0.il4t„QM4HA
The New State
of Oklahoma
Bigger than Missouri: as big as Ohio and
Indiana combined, with a soil teeming with
all the crops that any State raises,
OKLAHOMA—the new State—is destined
to occupy first rank in a £esv short years.
Here at the present time over a million
people are duplicating the life which is
going on in Illinois and Indiana. Their
houses, their towns and their schools are
netver but in nothing else do their sur
roundings differ from those in our States.
Their cities and towns are growing and ex
panding with the impetus of a fertile soil,
and a pushing, wide-awake citizenship.
Her settlers, mainly from the older States,
see the virtue of encouraging enterprises of
every kind and the needfulness of getting
more and better facilities; of getting more
hands to develop the country.
In brief, conditions to-day are simply
these: OKLAHOMA is in need of nothing
save people. More men are needed in die
cities and to wns; more farmers for the vast
areas of unimproved land not now yielding
crops of which it is capable. There are
openings of all sorts, for fanners and
artisans, for mills and manufacturing
plants, for small stores of all kinds.
\our Opportunity Now
Theopportonntinieisnow wbiJetbe land is cheap.
The country isfa&t settling up. If you purchase iaiwl
now yon will so:»n see grow up around you a com
munity of prosperous. enerjrctic men who. kc your
self. have seen the brighter possibilities of UHL LA-'
UUMA and ha to taken advsnj|e of them.
On the First and Third Tuesdays
or each month yon can make a trip to OKI.AHUM At
exceptionally cheap. Hound trip ticket* good ta.rty
—30—days wiii be sold by aii tines in connection «;th
tbeM.. K & T. Ity. at very .ow rates. From Chicago1
to Oklahoma City the rale is IS4.M; from 8t. Paul.!
i3t;ZB: from St. Jams. *18 30; from Kansas City.ttiS.
The tickets permit of stop-overs in bothdirectious'
via M . K. AT. ily. If your nearest railroad agent
cannot give yon the rates, write me for particulars.
VV. S. ST. GEORGE
General Passenger Agent
M., K. & T. R’y
Wainwrigbt Bldg. St. Louis. Mo. <
6. A. McfiCTT, SU6 Walnut St., Kansas City, Mol
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W. N. U„ OMAHA. NO. 39. 1906.